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Berkeley lab project to pinpoint methane 'super emitters'

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 30 times more heat than carbon dioxide, is commonly released from rice fields, dairies, landfills, and oil and gas facilities -- all of which are plentiful in California. Now Berkeley Lab has been awarded $6 million by the state to find 'super emitters' of methane in an effort to quantify and potentially mitigate methane emissions.

Funder: California Energy Commission

In a first, researchers identify reddish coloring in an ancient fossil

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have for the first time detected chemical traces of red pigment in an ancient fossil -- an exceptionally well-preserved mouse, not unlike today's field mice, that roamed the fields of what is now the German village of Willershausen around 3 million years ago.

Journal: Nature Communications

Record-shattering underwater sound

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A team of researchers has produced a record-shattering underwater sound with an intensity that eclipses that of a rocket launch. The intensity was equivalent to directing the electrical power of an entire city onto a single square meter, resulting in sound pressures above 270 decibels.

CosmoGAN: Training a neural network to study dark matter

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Berkeley Lab-led research group is using a deep learning method known as generative adversarial networks to enhance the use of gravitational lensing in the study of dark matter.

Journal: Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology

Breakthrough technique for studying gene expression takes root in plants

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An open-source RNA analysis platform has been successfully used on plant cells for the first time -- a breakthrough that could herald a new era of fundamental research and bolster efforts to engineer more efficient food and biofuel crops. The technology, called Drop-seq is a method for measuring the RNA present in individual cells, allowing scientists to see what genes are being expressed and how this relates to the specific functions of different cell types.

Journal: Cell Reports

Study: Glassy menagerie of particles in beach sands near Hiroshima is fallout debris

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A years-long study that involved scientists and experiments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley concludes that an odd assortment of particles found in beach sands in Japan are most likely fallout debris from the 1945 Hiroshima A-bomb blast.

Journal: Anthropocene

Q&A: SLAC/Stanford researchers prepare for a new quantum revolution

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The tech world is abuzz about quantum information science (QIS). This emerging technology explores bizarre quantum effects that occur on the smallest scales of matter and could potentially revolutionize the way we live.

Superfacility framework advances photosynthesis research

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

For more than a decade, a team of international researchers led by Berkeley Lab bioscientists has been studying Photosystem II, a protein complex in green plants, algae, and cyanobacteria that plays a crucial role in photosynthesis. They're now moving more quickly toward an understanding of this three-billion-year-old biological system, thanks to an integrated superfacility framework established between LCLS, ESnet, and NERSC.

Probing battery hotspots for safer energy storage

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

For the first time, a team of researchers has studied the effects of tiny areas within lithium metal batteries that are much hotter than their surroundings. These hotspots, the researchers find, can make batteries grow spiky tumors of metal called dendrites that could cause short circuits, and potentially lead to fires.

A new filter to better map the dark universe

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To address messy measurements of the cosmic web that connects matter in the universe, researchers at Berkeley Lab developed a way to improve the accuracy and clarity of these measurements based on the stretching of the universe's oldest light.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

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